Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

One must know the so-called 'lesson of a downpour.' A man, caught in a sudden rain en route, dashes along the road not to get wet or drenched. Once one takes it for granted that in rain he naturally gets wet, he can be in a tranquil frame of mind even when soaked to the skin. This lesson applies to everything.

Tina Brown

Along with all those books about Lincoln, Obama might read some biographies of Napoleon. The general who established the Legion d'Honneur understood that people fought as much for medals as for morals.

Idina Menzel

Along with enough sleep and taking proper supplements, I steam - in my steam shower. I find it's very healing, more than just your typical 'tea and honey.'

Idina Menzel

I set the bar high because I don't want to do just any other show just to keep working. I want to do something special that means something to people and speaks to them. Those kinds of opportunities don't come along all the time!

Isaac Brock

When I do write, it happens really easily. I'll just kind of sing along to whatever I'm playing, then find a line to build off of, then sit down and write. When I do write, I take care of business!

Isabella Bird

The traveller who aspires to reach the highlands of Tibet from Kashmir cannot be borne along in a carriage or hill-cart. For much of the way, he is limited to a foot pace, and if he has regard to his horse, he walks down all rugged and steep descents, which are many, and dismounts at most bridges.

Giles Foden

Writing about Africa by Africans has been part of my literary apprenticeship, standing alongside works by authors such as Joseph Conrad, Joyce Cary and Graham Greene as influences.

Gil Gerard

I'd always wanted the show to be more reality based science fiction, something along the lines of The Day the Earth Stood Still, which I consider to be the classic science fiction film.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

I would love to play alongside Wayne Rooney. He does the running of two or three players and makes a lot of space. We would be the perfect combination.

Vince Vaughn

I probably follow all sports a little bit. I like hockey quite a bit. I like football. I like college basketball when it gets down to March Madness. I like baseball. I enjoy them all. I watch them all.

Rebel Wilson

I was sporty in high school. I played tennis and hockey, and was basketball captain. Then I went to university and stopped doing sport and started eating ice cream.

Dave Grohl

I didn't start sweating until I had children. That was one of the first things I realized when my daughter Violet was born - I started getting wicked BO. You know there's a difference between basketball BO and stress BO? This was definitely stress BO. Like, new dad BO.

Carl Paladino

THESE ARE BEAUTIFUL PROPERTIES with basketball courts, bathroom facilities, toilet facilities. Many young people would love to get the hell out of cities

Arsenio Hall

I call Los Angeles the city of alternatives. If you don't like mountains, we got the ocean. If you don't like Knott's Berry Farm, we've got Disneyland. If you don't like basketball, we've got the Clippers.

Bill Vaughan

Any American boy can be a basketball star if he grows up, up, up.

Bill Bradley

Trying to take money out of politics is like trying to take jumping out of basketball.

Bill Bradley

How should we Democrats select the next presidential nominee? Smoke filled rooms? Brokered convention? National primary? Personally, I prefer jump shots from the top of the key.

Bill Bradley

Basketball can serve as a kind of metaphor for ultimate cooperation. It is a sport where success, as symbolized by the championship, requires that the dictates of community prevail over selfish impulses.

Isabella Bird

Poverty brings one blessing in Turkey - the poor man is of necessity a monogamist.

Evangeline Lilly

Life is magically beautiful. And it brings you what is perfect.

Lauren Morgens

The only rats are the ones she brings aboard to play with.

Ronaldo Ronaldo

The political moment is not good and football always brings happiness to the Brazilian people, especially if we succeed in qualifying for the cup,

Bill Belichick

The overall competitive nature he brings as an owner and as a franchise (still exists),

Barry Hyman

The payroll numbers were extraordinarily supportive for the economy. But counter to that, the report brings back the Fed and inflationary prospects, and that's why you see just a modest up day.

Dolly Parton

People don't realize that we, we meaning people in show business, have the same problems as everyone else. Money doesn't change that. Fame doesn't change that. Sometimes that brings on more problems. You know, it's just a different kind of problems.

Ravi Zacharias

How wonderful to know that when Jesus Christ speaks to you and to me, he enables you to understand yourself, to die to that self because of the cross, and brings the real you to birth.

Francisco Goya

Painting (like poetry) chooses from universals what is most apposite. It brings together, in a single imaginary being, circumstances and characteristics which occur in nature in many different persons.

Tim Burton

A lot of things you see as a child remain with you... you spend a lot of your life trying to recapture the experience.

Gail Carriger

As a field archeologist, one usually has to specialize in a particular part of the world or specific culture, whereas if one is a materials specialist, one can jump around to different areas. So I've had experience on excavations all over the place.

Gillian Armstrong

Sure, you always put some of your own experience into a film.

Yotam Ottolenghi

I used to have a very unmediated experience of food but, because of the recipe testing, I've lost that now. I can't switch it off even when I'm on holiday.

Ellen Key

The young must be prepared to experience innumerable disappointments and yet not fail.

Edward Norton

If you've got a piece and you can feel the person who's going to direct it is really made for it, if it's really special for them, then it's going to be a better-than-usual experience.

Elaine Stritch

These performers that go on about their technique and craft - oh, puleeze! How boring! I don't know what 'technique' means. But I do know what experience is.

Don Marquis

An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.

David Byrne

Music was an experience, intimately married to your life. You could pay to hear music, but after you did, it was over, gone - a memory.

Andy Gibbons

We're really trying to get our screen-game going again. And Kevin is a big part of that.

Jamie Martin

I did just enough. I'm not a lineman, I just tried to shield him and let Kevin do what he wanted to do.

Bob Odenkirk

If you're committed enough, you can make any story work. I once told a woman I was Kevin Costner, and it worked because I believed it.

Bruce Barnes

We ran our spread offense to Adam. He can do what he wants with the ball. We had Zach (Weismann) and Kevin (Brush) on the perimeter. He can also take the shot if he's open.

Daniel Gillies

Kevin Smith is so great in 'Kingdom Come,' isn't he? He's kind of this very earthy poet. He just has this immediate gregariousness, like, you kind of just want to be his pal.

Trevor McDonald

I'm much more on the phone to Mr. Kevin Pietersen these days than anybody else I know.

Howard Fisher

Robert and Kevin really communicated well on the court.

Marc Conti

Kevin is Kevin; that's just him. That guy's got 'em where it counts.

Steve Sampson

Kevin has literally played every single minute up until today's game. I didn't want to go into the playoffs without Steve Cronin getting some playing time.

Jim Higgins

That was Harold. Even to the end, he loved to talk about fishing.

Seal

I always used to say to my wife, the thing that I loved most about us is that we are a team, we are impenetrable in that respect.

Rosamund Pike

I remember times of anxiety, ups and downs, and times of unexpected windfalls. But my parents loved what they did. And because their work was also their hobby, it taught me that work could be fulfilling.

Paulo Costanzo

No one ever comes up to me and says, 'Hey man, I loved your work in 'Road Trip.' They say, 'Are you that guy?' Like, they have no idea. 'Were you in 'American Pie 2?'

Greg Bear

Mostly she just loved sitting down and writing.

Graham Sharpe

Whoever takes over will be inheriting a much loved position and an opportunity to become a broadcasting institution.

Marci Hamilton

I think she'll feel like this is a bonus. She's always loved the job. The saddest thing for her was going to be not being at opening day.

Tom Carter

We'd take day-cruises up to Tahoe. They loved doing that.

Garth Brooks

Poppa loved Mama, Mama loved men, Mama's in the graveyard, Papa's in the pen.

Mario Zawadzki

The political situation here doesn't help, but worldwide markets are falling.

Rob Enderle

The overseas market isn't saturated like the U.S..

Chris Walker

The overall market is down a tad anyway,

Michael Carty

The path of least resistance for this market is up right now.

Sheryl Kingstone

The $500,000 offer is a very tactical marketing move.

Rodney Roberts

We have all the respect for Carroll and they will be back. Mark it down. They're playoff-tough.

Peter Fontaine

We have to wait and see how this storm develops, ... We don't have a sense of panic in the market yet.

Peter Fontaine

We have to wait and see how this storm develops, going into Texas. We don't have a sense of panic in the market yet.

Joseph Cohen

Today the markets are already priced for imperfection,

Yahya Jammeh

Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.

Yossi Vardi

In the end, I think that people that are not willing to take the risk to fail are not true entrepreneurs.

Yancy Butler

Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are telling you it has powers. I would be a little skeptical myself.

Ian Mckellen

I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.'

Ian Mckellen

People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'

Irwin Thomas

I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.

Irwin Rose

I don't have any hobbies. You know, I'm very embarrassed when people ask me what are my hobbies; I don't have any hobbies. I mean, it's just enough to keep up with the things I'm trying to solve.

Isiah Whitlock, Jr.

Usually, when you're working or you're on set, everything is very guarded. At parties, people have a tendency to relax.

Imani Hakim

When people say, 'If you could do anything else, what would you do?' I would be an actress. That's something that I would do - I can't see myself doing anything else.

Tubby Goodwin

The ANC is in the weakest position it's been in a while. So there's a little uncertainty and a little profit taking.

Mark Foulkes

We've got some positions that still are up for grabs.

Philip Hammond

Negotiating with the Taliban must be done from a position of strength. Negotiating from a position of weakness would be a disaster.

Tom Brandt

I think Jens is sitting in position where he should ski in the top 30 in the state.

Wayne Oakes

We aren't in a position to be able to comment,

Tyrone Willingham

We haven't even practiced yet, but all of our positions are wide open.

Eric Schmidt

We are in the strongest position that we have ever been.

Linda Hargrove

I think she could have an MVP season. She is in a position where all she has to do is go out and play. She doesn't have to be the leader.

Rod Graves

It does not preclude us from taking a look at the quarterback position in the draft.

John Lyboldt

You can go to all the manufacturers very quickly and save yourself a lot of time.

Mike Shanahan

We try to get everything done as quickly as possible. We have to be ready for March.

Katie Brown

He cantered quickly and was just very quick.

Sunil Mittal

You can choose to be very profitable very quickly if you don't want to grow.

Nicole Draper

The day they were born, they immediately started having complications and quickly went downhill.

Rashida Jones

I thought they were trying to put it out. I couldn't tell you how quickly it happened. I was so traumatized that this whole thing had happened.

Dick DeGuerin

It is important to us to get this over with as quickly as possible.

Armando Iannucci

I briefly thought of becoming a priest but quickly saw that would be ridiculous.

Tony Mowbray

I am surprised by how quickly he has come back,

Otis Smith

We've talked with them, but we've talked to a lot of teams. I still like the team that we've assembled, but we just haven't been able to see it together because of injuries. So we're having to look at some different things. You can't just be stagnant. Like they say, if you're not getting better, you're getting worse.

Charley Casserly

We've talked to teams about the pick, and we're willing to move.

Dennis Riley

We've talked to (Pat), and he's going to get back to us.

Robert Philips

We've talked to him about opportunities within our cluster. It's really in Steve's court.

Jody Gravelin

We haven't even talked about winning the league. We just want to play to our potential.

Dan McDonald

We have talked about (going to state) every day this year.

Tim Thompson

When you started thinking your going to make a mistake, you've talked yourself into making it.

Scott Faieta

I talked with the contractor, who is still optimistic.

John Matessino

I talked to them. They said it's just not true.

Lakpa Sherpa

I think this is a very wealthy country.

H. Hart

We were just experiencing a wealth of drive-offs.

David Korten

Money is not wealth. Money is a claim on wealth.

Chanakya

He who has wealth has friends.

Edith Wharton

True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision. That new, that personal, vision is attained only by looking long enough at the object represented to make it the writer's own; and the mind which would bring this secret gem to fruition must be able to nourish it with an accumulated wealth of knowledge and experience.

David Ricardo

In the same manner if any nation wasted part of its wealth, or lost part of its trade, it could not retain the same quantity of circulating medium which it before possessed.

Carl Lewis

I always wanted to be wealthy. I did.

Calvin Coolidge

Of course, the accumulation of wealth cannot be justified as the chief end of existence,

Charles M. Schwab

Spending creates more wealth for everybody.